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April 11, 2013
Uruguay votes for gay marriage

Uruguay's lower chamber completes a historic legislative process to legalize marriage equality in the country

Uruguay’s lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, has made history today (10 April) when it voted to legalize gay marriage.

An overwhelming majority (71) voted for gay marriage out of the total 92 deputies in the lower house.

This means that Uruguay has effectively legalized marriage equality, as both chambers of the General Assembly, the upper house (Senate) and lower house have now voted for the bill by an overwhelming majority.

November 5, 2012
New Zealand PM apologizes for 'gay' red jumper gag

John Key says sorry for radio gaffe but claims he was using the word 'gay' as youth slang

New Zealand's prime minister, John Key, has been forced to apologize after joking a radio host was wearing a 'gay' red jumper.

Key made the offensive gaffe during an interview with RadioSport's Farming Show on Friday (2 November).

'You're going to be nervous when you're lining up on those par threes aren't you,' he teased DJ Jamie Mackay.

'You're munted mate, you're never gonna make it, you've got that gay red top on there.'

October 28, 2012
New Zealand politicians join protest likening gays to animals

Two New Zealand politicians took part in anti-gay marriage protest in South Auckland

Two New Zealand members of parliament (MPs), Kanwaljit S Bakshi and Su'a William Sio, have participated in a protest against marriage-equality that included people with placards likening gay people to animals.

Protestors in South Auckland, New Zealand yesterday (27 October), carried handwritten placards saying ‘lesbi/gay copy ... animals’ as well as saying any MPs who supported the bill to legalise same-sex marriage were mentally ill.

July 30, 2012
New Zealand PM says he will vote for gay marriage

New Zealand’s centre-right prime minister John Key says he will support same-sex marriage bill in parliament

New Zealand’s National Party prime minister John Key has confirmed that he supports gay marriage and will vote for a same-sex marriage bill that has been put before parliament.

July 24, 2012
LGBT activists mobilize in Queensland

Queenslanders for Equality launched in response to the state government’s repeal of same-sex couples rights

LGBT activists in the state of Queensland, Australia, launched a new campaign group on Sunday to counter the reduction of their rights by the Liberal National Party (LNP) government.

Queenslanders for Equality will tackle the roll-back of rights for LGBT people in the state since the LNP took power in March this year.

July 15, 2012
Liberal National Party conference picketed by LGBTs over rights reversal

The LGBT community in the Australian state of Queensland has picketed the state conference of the ruling Liberal National Party ahead of moves to strip them of further rights

LGBTs in the Australian state of Queensland have picketed the Liberal National Party’s state conference in Brisbane to protest the government’s winding back of LGBT rights.

Around a hundred people picketed the conference on Saturday, holding up placards with slogans including, ‘Pride not Prejudice,’ ‘Homophobia has to go,’ and ‘Hate is not a Family Value’ outside the Brisbane Hilton hotel.

June 22, 2012
Queensland government reduces same-sex couples' rights

Civil unions will become ‘registered relationships’, surrogacy will only be available to opposite-sex couples, after heated late-night parliamentary debate

The Queensland government further angered the LGBT community last night by downgrading civil union partnerships to ‘registered relationships’ and announcing a change in surrogacy law so that it will only be available to heterosexual couples.

Changes to the civil union law were passed at 12.25am today after five hours of debate and an interruption by protestors who chanted ‘shame, bigot, shame’.

June 13, 2012
Queensland denies same-sex couples civil union ceremonies

Queensland civil union law amended to appease Christian lobby, same-sex couples will not be allowed state-approved ceremonies

Yesterday, Queensland Premier Campbell Newman announced plans to amend, rather than abolish civil union law in the Australian state.

Same-sex couples will still be allowed to register their partnerships, but they will not be allowed to have state-sanctioned ceremonies.

Civil Union law in Queensland came in just weeks before the socially conservative Liberal National Party (LNP) was voted into state government.

June 12, 2012
PM Julia Gillard tells Aussie gays she proves they don’t need marriage

Australian Prime Minister, Christians and even coffee chains all caught up in same-sex marriage fight

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has told gays that her own relationship proves you don’t have to marry.

Gillard, who opposes same-sex marriage equality, isn’t married to her long-term partner Tim Mathieson but says they are still committed to each other.

She told ABC TV: ‘I think you can have a loving relationship of love and commitment and trust and understanding that doesn't need a marriage certificate. That's my life experience – so I'm speaking from that life experience.’

May 31, 2012
Thousands march to defend civil unions and protect LGBT health in Brisbane

Around 2,000 marched to the Queensland parliament last night to protest anti-LGBT moves by the new Liberal National Party state government

Around 2,000 people marched to the Queensland parliament in Brisbane, Australia last night to protest the new state government’s treatment of the LGBT community.

The rally entitled Defend Civl Unions, Save Healthy Communities delivered a double message to the new Liberal National Party, who took over from the Labor Party at the end of March.

Civil unions for same-sex couples were legalized in Queensland just three weeks before the change in government.

April 19, 2012
Australian Liberals rebel on equal marriage

Local branch of Liberal Party in Australia defies leader Tony Abbott and calls for free vote on same-sex marriage

A branch of the Liberal Party in Australia has defied their leader Tony Abbott voted in favor of a conscience vote on same-sex marriage.

The East Sydney branch of the Liberal Party is in favor of its members voting based on their views, rather than the party line.

March 19, 2012
Predicted victors of Queensland election fail to send candidate to gay debate

Liberal National Party has not provided candidate for state election debate at Gay & Lesbian Business Network tonight 

Australia's opposition party, and predicted winners of Queensland's upcoming state election, have failed to provide a candidate for a debate at Brisbane’s Gay and Lesbian Business Network tonight.

March 12, 2012
Backlash to anti-gay marriage advert in Australia

‘Nasty’ advert is widely criticised by public, politicians and the gay brother of the party leader responsible

Right-wing political party, Katter’s Australian Party, has received hate mail, criticism from other parties and accusations of ‘grubby tactics’ from the party leader’s gay half-brother after airing an anti-gay marriage advert.

February 27, 2012
Civil unions could end with next month’s Queensland election

Leader of the opposition Campbell Newman says he would repeal legal rights of same-sex couples if he wins the state election on 24 March
 

Since Thursday, gay couples in Queensland, Australia have able to register for civil unions. For the first time, the state legally recognises same-sex relationships, some decades old. But if, as the polls predict, the Liberal National Party (LNP) win the state election in less than a month, those rights could be taken away.

February 1, 2012
‘This really is the end of the world’ says leader of Hungary’s National Party

Gabor Vona says staging of the gay EuroGames in Budapest is ‘the end of the world’

Leader of Hungary’s National Party Gabor Vona has described the holding of the gay EuroGames in Budapest this summer as ‘the end of the world’. He told a rally: ‘God is my witness, it’s not some kind of homophobia but merely common decency that makes me say that this really is the end of the world.’

December 30, 2011
Hope for gays as PNP wins Jamaica election

People’s National Party wins landslide victory, leader has spoken in favour of gay rights, JLP homophobes beaten

Jamaica’s opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has won a landslide victory in the national election yesterday.

The victory brings hope for Jamaica’s LGBT population after PNP leader Portia Simpson-Miller spoke out in favour of gay rights.
Officials said that 66 year old Simpson-Miller had won 41 of the 63 seats to secure a large parliamentary majority after a close race.

December 22, 2011
Jamaican opposition leader backs gay rights

People’s National Party leader Portia Simpson-Miller backs anti-gay buggery law repeal in TV debate

The Jamaican opposition leader has come out in favour of LGBT rights and reviewing the anti-gay buggery law during an election debate.

People’s National Party leader Portia Simpson-Miller made the positive comments during an election debate yesterday with Prime Minister Andrew Holness. Jamaicans will go to the polls on 29 December.

Simpson-Miller said no-one should be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation and that she would have no problem appointing gays to her cabinet if they were able to do the job.